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Welcome to Hope n' Change 2.0!

In the face of a collapsing economy, rampant unemployment, and global instability, Barack Hussein Obama took office in 2008 promising Hope and Change. The "Hope" thing didn't really work out, but we got plenty of "Change" as everything got worse. And now, the jug-eared jackass has a second term.

That's why at Hope n' Change Cartoons, we're creating conservative smartaleckry to provide a little laughter in these strange times. Cartoons will probably be posted Monday and Wednesday, and definitely on Friday. Additionally, cartoons and graphics will be posted randomly on our Facebook page and Friday we'll add the week's postings right here to kick around in one of the greatest comments sections on the Web.Note: please feel free to repost our cartoons on your favorite blogs!

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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Okay, this probably didn't happen last night. And for anyone who doesn't know, sodium pentothal is commonly known as "truth serum" and we hope to see it used on every member (current and former) of the Obama administration sometime in the future to assure accurate prison sentences.

Still, we felt like enjoying a bit of pleasant fantasy on the occasion of Barry's last State of the Union address (assuming our "October Surprise" isn't his declaration of martial law). While he still has a full year to do untold damage, at least the countdown for his exit is finally happening.

Of course, we couldn't fit all of his (ahem) "accomplishments" into the cartoon above. Let us not forget that in seven short years, he's also managed to polarize our society as never before, poison the relationship between police and communities, make astonishing numbers of people dependent on government benefit programs, crushed the middle class while enriching those at the very top, and chummed the waters for the international "climate change" sharks to take a big bite out of American prosperity.

And although he has long harped on the subject of gun control, he's done nothing to take guns out of the hands of actual criminals and gangs. But at his final State of the Union speech, Obama will call attention to an empty chair in the first lady's box (about which we're tempted to make a joke but won't) which represents "the victims of gun violence who no longer have a voice."

We think that empty chair might better symbolize the missing government functionary whose job it was to screen Islamic jihadists Syed Farook and Tashfeen Maleek before they were allowed into the country to commit the largest terror attack in America since 9/11. And there should be another empty chair to represent those brave Americans who died in Benghazi, and additional empty chairs for those shot with guns from the president's disastrous "Fast and Furious" program.

Surely Kate Steinle, brutally murdered by one of the president's illegal immigrants in a Democrat "sanctuary city" deserves an empty chair. There should be empty chairs to symbolize every soldier killed overseas while following the orders of a president who didn't believe in his own "strategy." Empty chairs for the Christians slaughtered overseas without a peep from this administration. And empty chairs for every man, woman, and child killed by Syrian chemical weapons after the president turned his back on his "red line" commitment and (bonus!) destroyed our nation's credibility.

In fact, the more we think about it, the president's address would most appropriately be given to a chamber in which every seat is as empty as the vapid promises he made to bring positive change to our nation.

But to end on an optimistic note, just remember that a year from now Obama will no longer be able to deliver his smug, poisonous lies to a joint session. In fact, the only "joint sessions" he's likely to attend in the future will be back in Hawaii with his choom gang.

THIS empty chair isn't symbolic. We just want to use it to smack the noggins of anyone who voted for Obama twice.

What a waste of eight years. Not counting the unknown years of trying to undo the damage. Unfortunately I know many otherwise rational people who voted for him the first time and soon saw the errors of their ways. I will not associate with those who voted for the SOB twice. Too damn ignorant for me to waste my time talking to or thinking about. Lost a number of friends. Too effing bad.

I didn't watch it because I can't put any more bleach in my eyes as I have upcoming cataract surgery and I couldn't listen to the POSPOTUS because I can't stand it when my hearing aids explode. I'll just pick up snippets of it hear and there. Oh, where did I put my moonshine? .......

Øbarry, in the first few minutes informed us that the economy is rosy, healthcare is great, and people can now marry whoever they "love".

I don't think I can endure watching anymore if this is what the rest of his gag fest was like.

I can only hope that he doesn't fulfill what my, and many others, fears are and by executive order declare the legislative and judicial branches of government no longer needed, and that voting is too old fashioned for a "progressive" country like the United States of America.

Didn't watch; but I could not avoid a few seconds of snippets later. It sounded exactly as expected. The entire approach sounded like it was the "State of Obama's Legacy" (a work of fiction)and not much truth about the USA. I wish there was magic mute button to turn this sick-minded jerk off all the time, in every way.

Still getting caught up, but it seems that his speech was just as expected; celebrating the fiction that is his success. Fortunately, most Americans don't buy it. As I've said many times here, it's much easier to sell bad times during good times by convincing people that people elsewhere they they don't know are suffering. On the other hand, it's much harder to sell good times during bad, since nearly everybody personally knows people who are suffering. For example, I don't think it's possible not to know someone who's not paying more for healthcare, or has been screwed by ObamaCare, or someone who is working multiple jobs and yet making less than they did before Obama's saved the economy.

@TMay, I'd say send Obama to the UN. The UN is hopelessly corrupt and like Obama, anti-American. It's a perfect fit. I believe the UN charter prevents him from being able to "run it", so he'd likely just disappear into the morass as the UN continues its decent into irrelevancy.

@Stilton, Biden writes the punch lines for us.

@T.L. Ullrich, the "Middle Class" has taken it on the chin for Obama, as "trickle-up" poverty continues to absorb more and more of them into the bottom.

I hope the bursitis he got in his shoulder from patting himself on the back doesn't affect his golf game. Lord knows we all want him out on the links (i.e. NOT in our White House) as much as possible.

I sometimes complain about Direct TV having a bazillion channels of crap I never watch, but last night it came in rather handy. It's amazing how quickly "Shark Vacuum" can seem like an Emmy Award winner when compared to an O'Liar speech.

Biden is an obvious choice for "cancer czar." After all, he's been intimately close to the most tenacious and treacherous of deadly cancers for seven years now.

United Nations? It is my fervent prayer that our next president (Lord let 'em be a real conservative!) sees the UN for what it is, withdraws our membership, and kicks their asses out of New York! Let the socialist bastards plot their anti-American crap on soil that isn't in The USA.

So more more I read about last night, the less it seems I missed. Just as well. But it also seems that the obligatory "Official Response to the State of the Union" speech by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley was equally as vapid. It's more proof that the establishment GOP still doesn't get it, and is today nothing more than an opposition party representing most Americans no better than the Democrats do.

"During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation.

No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country.

At the same time, that does not mean we just flat out open our borders. We can't do that. We cannot continue to allow immigrants to come here illegally. And in this age of terrorism, we must not let in refugees whose intentions cannot be determined.

We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries."

"That's not actually true. By "centuries", Mrs Haley means half-a-century - since the 1965 immigration act. Before then, America, like all nations, reserved the right to pick and choose which non-citizens it wished to admit. You may suspect that her declaration that "no one who is willing to work hard... should ever feel unwelcome in this country" sounds awfully like an "open borders" policy - after all sloths and slackabeds rarely identify themselves as such. But don't worry, if it is open borders, the Governor assures us that it's not "flat out" open borders. Like President Obama and Mrs Clinton, Nikki Haley trusts to the same kind of "proper vetting" whose results can be seen on the streets of San Bernadino, Paris and Cologne.

Unfortunately for her, this sentimentalist twaddle is not where the Republican base is. She's looking at immigration policy from the point of view of the seven billion hard-working soon-to-be-vetted Americans-in-waiting around the planet. But one of the changes this election season is that the party base is considering immigration policy from the point of view of the 300 million Americans who are already here."

What is Mrs Haley offering instead?

"If we held the White House, taxes would be lower for working families, and we'd put the brakes on runaway spending and debt."

Really? You don't get that impression from the Ryan budget.

"We would reform education so it worked best for students, parents, and teachers, not Washington bureaucrats and union bosses."

Like No Child Left Behind and Common Core?

"We would end a disastrous health care program, and replace it with reforms that lowered costs and actually let you keep your doctor."

And they say Trump lacks specifics...

"We would respect differences in modern families, but we would also insist on respect for religious liberty as a cornerstone of our democracy."

So where do you stand on state-enforced baking of gay wedding cakes?

"And rather than just thanking our brave men and women in uniform, we would actually strengthen our military, so both our friends and our enemies would know that America seeks peace, but when we fight wars we win them."

Yeah, well, absent Grenada and a couple of other skirmishes, you've got to go back seventy years for an example of that...

So these days the GOP can't even schedule an insipid forgettable SOTU response without insulting the overwhelming majority of its actual voters.

Geoff King...the folks at MSNBC thought it was the 'finest' speech he ever did! So, good call, my man!

Colby...I'm with you, get the US out of the UN, and the UN out of the US!!!

All in all, a most forgettable speech given be a demented and demon-possessed pitiful excuse for a human being, and filled with choom-driven fantasies about a utopia they believe can be achieved through human effort! Unfortunately, we will never be totally rid of his regal presence in coming years I' afraid; he's always been the 'man with the plan', and I'm sure he has many! God help us!

I was lucky enough to have a very painful knee injury, so I went to bed without seeing this Emmy quality production. I screwed up my knee several days ago, (it's getting better--thank you) and due to self medication and refusal to seek "professional" medical care, I continue my decades old string of avoiding personal contact with doctors and hospitals, although my monthly $124 medicare payments are faithfully removed from my bank account. I took a "quiet day" today and my knee no longer screams like a banshee when walking.I hope I'm not breaking any rules here, but I made this comment on yesterday' H&C:Why are we comparing Dear Leader's administration to "1984"? The way they run things is more like Terry Gilliam's "Brazil". Gov't drones sitting at machines pushing buttons with no idea of what results.

On another subject... I heard something yesterday on Megyn Kelly that gave me pause. What could be a worse nightmare for the USA than President Shrillary? President Moonbeam Brown, that's what. Then again, there's the "free LSD for everyone!" thing that could at least help us all forget that we've packed up and moved to the asylum.

@Colby Muenster, every so often Gov Moonbeam's name as a possible contender keeps coming back like a bad rash. Fortunately for us, California these days is hardly a model of success that we'd wish inflicted upon the rest of the country, just as Baltimore is hardly a resume booster for O'Malley. They're fundamentally bankrupt yet spending lavishly on boondoggles instead on vital infrastructure, overrun with illegals, the state payroll is out-of-control, and if it weren't for Silicon Valley and the equities boom over the last 6 years, they'd be finished. (If the stock market doesn't recover before the end of the year, expect another corresponding fiscal crisis is Sacramento) For the last quarter century, middle-income people have been fleeing only to be replaced by low-income. And just like Obama, Moonbeam thinks "climate change" is his biggest problem. California's water problem could be solved for roughly half of what they're spending on their high-speed rail to nowhere.

About Seattle Yes I remember reading that that was a Progressive plan for the US. Get us into cities, in apartment buildings, using public transportation It makes services easier to dispense. Land could be used for food or for the environment. They planned to put hospitals in cities and make people have to travel from small towns to get to them.

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